Thanks for the response. Looks like the ECL would help, the only issue is I have no developer experience!
Currently our users use their personal outlook contacts & GAL through a lookup on the RIM devices. In a Disaster Recovery situation we want to ensure that the relevnt usres have the correct contacts on their device to call in an emergency. I was therefore hoping to force a list of contacts onto the relevant users devices so that the contacts would be vailable in a DR situation.